Free Takt Time Calculator

Takt time is the drumbeat customer demand sets for your line. Enter your working pattern and demand — the calculator does the rest, in your browser.

Calculator

Working time per shift (min)

Breaks per shift (min)

Shifts per day

Customer demand (parts/day)

Available time / day

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Takt time

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Required rate

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How takt time is calculated

Takt time = available production time ÷ customer demand

Available time is working time minus breaks (takt uses planned availability — downtime is a problem to fix, not to plan around). With the defaults: (480 − 30) × 2 shifts = 900 min/day; 900 × 60 ÷ 700 parts = 77.1 seconds per part.

Takt vs cycle time

Takt is what the customer needs; cycle time is what your process does. Every station's cycle time must beat takt or the line can't hit demand — that gap analysis is line balancing, and it's exactly what the full workbook does across 60 work elements.

This calculator does the single calculation. The workbook does the whole study.

The full workbook balances 60 work elements against takt, shows station loading live, and computes bottleneck, minimum stations, and balance efficiency.

See the Takt Time & Line Balancing workbook — $29 →